Not an issue that has come up before, but it is not really a bug. Specifying a wild card in the file name when that file is being created is not something that could be supported - Inaport would not know what to name the file.

Note that in the setup of the CSV connector, there is an option at the bottom under 'Target file processing options' to add a timestamp to the name of the file, thus allowing a single connector to create a new file each time the job is run.

For example, you you specified 'myfile.csv', the resulting file would be 'myfile_2015-10-14T12-08-10.csv'

alright - i follow what you are saying, about wild cards having no logical meaning when creating a file - what im thinking that it would make it sense if inaport understood that & ignored (trimmed out) the wildcards before creating / writing to such files, while only using them in import/read operations.

re the datetime stamp, we are using that option datestamp option already & require it for archival purposes. works great.

The reason we have to read the date stamped files back in after generation, is so that we can mark off the records in CRM as exported following the export run. (Id rather update during export, but so far dont have a method for this with crm as the source.)

If there were an update to allow the system to ignore wildcards on creation, it would halve the number of connectors to maintain. (dev & live connectors too). perhaps by specifying 2 file paths, an import path (with optional wildcards) and an export path. basic solution, but that would do it.

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